310 



2016. Megalodes denticulosa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 676; c. $ S. 

 no. 2135. 



Cupreous red-brown ; thorax and fore wing irrorated with 

 white scales, the latter with indistinct waved antemedial and 

 highly excurved postmedial line ; traces of the reniform stigma ; 

 highly dentate submarginal and fine marginal lines white ; abdo- 

 men and hind wing paler ; cilia of both wings grey. 



Hob. Poona ; Bombay ; Coimbatore. Exp. 26 millim. 



G-euus TARACHE. 



Tarache, Hubn. Verz. p. 261 (1818). 



Euphasia, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii, p. 115 (1829). 



Agrophila, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x, p. 228 (1840). 



Type, T. lucida, Hiifn. 



Range. Universally distributed in the tropical, subtropical, and 

 warmer temperate zones. 



Differs from Hyela in the palpi being porrect, the frons with a 

 rounded corneous projection. 



Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



SECT. I. (Tarache). Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from the cell. 



A. Palpi li'ith the 3rd joint short and not reaching 

 beyond the frons. 



2017. Tarache lucida, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii, 302 (1767). 

 Noctua Solaris, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 90. 

 Noctua albicollis, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii, p. 218. 

 Noclua rupicola, JJorkh. Schtnett. Eur. iv, p. 82. 

 Noctua titania, Freyer, Beitr. Schmett. vi, pi. 533. 

 Noctua insolatrix, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Noct. figs. 684, 685. 

 Acontia triradiata, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 794 ; C. fy S. no. 1849. 



J. Dark brown ; head and thorax more or less intermingled 

 with white scales ; abdomen white-ringed. Fore wing with the 

 basal half white, running out to an angle at lower end of cell ; the 

 basal area with ill-defined waved blue-grey lines and with a black 

 speck near base ; the outer area dark brown, with a large quadrate 

 postmedial costal white patch from which arises a dark waved and 

 iucurved line ; reniform figure-of-8-shaped, with narrow blue-grey 

 outline ; a waved submarginal white line, obsolescent towards 

 costa and sending spurs to outer margin near outer angle, the area 

 beyond it irrorated with blue-grey scales ; a marginal series of 

 black specks ; cilia white towards outer angle. Hind wing dark 

 brown, with a very irregular white medial band sending spurs 

 inwards towards the base ; cilia white. Underside with the 

 brown and white areas of both wings disposed much as on upper- 

 side. 



2 - The white markings of both wings less extensive. 



